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Movie in a Window
Lingo allows you to play more than one movie at a time by playing movies in windows (MIAWs). The following Show Me movies discuss how to use Lingo, issues of opening and closing Show Me movies, and suggestions for working around the issues:
- Opening and closing
- Advantages of an MIAW over a movie cast member
- Avoiding a white flash on the Macintosh
- Using global variables with MIAWs
- Which movie receives keyboard input
- Which movie controls the palette, transition, and sound channels
- Memory usage
- Which movie receives rollover messages
- Closing windows
- Playing multiple movies in the same window
- Communicating between movies
- Positioning windows on the screen
- Using the
windowList to manage windows
Play the Show Me movies directly from this web page. To see all the scripts that were used to create the movie, download the source movies.
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